Show FAMOUS ART TREASURES An Afternoon at the Stewart Collection Collec-tion Special Oomjspoadrnce1 l NEW YORK March 21 Nothing sets certain portions of New York more agog than the display of a private citizens citi-zens collection of art treasures It is a fountain filled with conversational beverage which the ignorant and the learned alike ladle out without stint The mass of artistic and expensive things collected by the late Mr and Mrs A T Stewart has been exhibited in the American Art gallery for weeks and every day a stream of people that almost reaches the size of a torrent pours through They gaze comment criticise wonder sometimes sneer sometimes praise and pass on Others follow doing the same If one watches the procession a little while it becomes both ludicrous and pathetic It is human life condensed within the limits of an art gallery The pretenders the true enjoyers the strugglers the aspirers all are there The interest of the collection is enhanced by the owners celebrity his well known history even the history of his grave As one enters to tho left are the portraits of Mr and Mrs Stewart If one did not know that the picture represented him one could not but be strlt kith k-ith the selfishness of the face The eyes are too blue and cold to belong to a warm and kind nature Yet the mouth is not unkind It would be good to those he loved and cruel to those who were nothing to him Everybody pauses long before Rosa Bon heurs celebrated Horse Fair How inspiriting in-spiriting it is with its splendid white and dappled Percherons led and ridden by tricky grooms in blue blouses a black stallion rearing rear-ing in the middle of the group and much action in the crowd an avenue of trees beyond be-yond and the dome of the Invalids in the distance Twenty or more horses with attendants at-tendants are in plain view others are indicated in-dicated while ponies and colts are here and there This is the original of this famous picture It was first exhibited the Salon lof 1853 and brought to this country in 1857 by W P Wright of Weehawken It represents eighteen months bard study by the artist at the old horse market on the boulevard da 1Hopital and of conscientious studio work Rosa Bonheurs animals have a human intelligence intel-ligence They speak to the beholder and ttll t tales of human longings and human suffering Yet this was not the picture which nuue Rosa Bonheur famous Her Oxen Plowing in the Nivernais did that It is in the Luxembourg Lux-embourg Yet the Horse Fair has become more celebrated For brother AI cHq i F 1111 h e pift i e iu the cv lection j Cattle in the JL 11 tame tau Forest which would be famous I bud lie not had a famous sister I Long haired critics pose before the aught ies > t works of art there displayed and point out faults What is so easy anyway as to j find fault They maybe threadbare artists starving in fireless rooms nevertheless they I feel themselves perfectly competent to tell I their successful brother and sister artists what they should have done Well thats human nature in every phase of life We can all point a road or think we can though we have never traveled it Timid souls who overrate their own ignorance stare in adoring wonder at the selfsatisfied critic with the sneer curling mouu under his Hwcican mustache mus-tache They think him very learned The chattering young lady who has been abroad and seen things makes the round leaving a trail of rattling gossip in the air She is devoted to style and in her toilet puts the classic garments of the subjects on the canvas into limbo She has picked up i little something about pictures with all hl nonsense and occasionally surprises every body by saying something worth hearing Very stout women are always at picture gal herbs in great numbers They may often be found discussing tho gold spoons up in the department where the small and large miscellaneous miscel-laneous things are displayed And what a treat to the fanciers of such things is this col lection 1 Sevres porcelain European bronzes statues in Carrara marble carved tables ex misite cabinets ormolu and bronze can delabra clocks jewel caskets bricabrac in plain English breakaback of every design and every country are displayed All these treasures must pass under the hammer and be scattered Do notsuch things reach weighty sermons on getting and keep ugh Let him get who has the power and et him keep who can Nobody can keep long or the great scatterer Death sees to it that ie shall not GKUTI UE GARRISoN |